Trashed Hammond Road house finally torn down

Homeowner defied orders for more than year

By BEN CARLSON

Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 9:26 am

A demolition crew began razing a home Monday on Hammond Road just two weeks before its owner was to go on trial for refusing to tear it down.
The owner, Steve Gay, was to stand trial Sept. 12 in Anderson District Court.
The saga over the crumbling home dates back more than year. Gay was originally given 10 days to tear down the home when it was declared unsafe by the county fire chief.
It wasn’t.
Gay was then cited and ordered to appear in District Court, where a judge gave him until July 5 to tear it down.

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